In my area we have problems with Hawthorne thorns flattening tires. I got tired of fixing the front tires on my Ford 641D only to have them go flat again within a couple of days. So I had them foamed. I don't remember just what that cost, but it was well over $100. With the tires foamed, they were extremely hard and hardly flexed at all, and weighed about 100 lbs each. I didn't like how the tractor rode, and worried that having the front tires so very hard might be hard on the front end. But at least they didn't go flat any more.
After a few years though, the tires started coming apart. First the tread came off of one side, and then the other, leaving the very smooth "doughnut" of hard rubber foam. The tractor wouldn't turn worth a darn that way, so I had to buy new tires. It took a long time to figure out how to get the "doughnuts" and the beads of the ruined tires off the rims, but using a Sawzall, chisels and a hammer, I finally got the rims usable again.
My new tires were the best I could find locally. I decided to put Slime (the kind for tube tires) in them and added most of a quart to each side. I haven't had any flats in about 5+ years and I still operate around the Hawthorne bushes.
I don't know if the tires I had foamed were poor quality or not, as they came on the tractor when I bought it. I think they were Firestones that couldn't have been more than 10 years old when I foamed them. I sure was disappointed in their durability after I foamed them. I had expected the tires to last for many years after spending that much money.
So my advice would be to try Slime or another similar product. It has worked for me. And it is a whole lot less expensive to do than having the tires foamed. Good luck!
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